doc: announce igb_uio move to an external repository

Based on the tech board meeting held on 2019-11-06,
It's been decided to move igb_uio kernel module to a new repository
hosted by dpdk.org in v20.11 release.

http://mails.dpdk.org/archives/dev/2019-November/151763.html

Adding the deprecation notice for the same in advance.

Signed-off-by: Jerin Jacob <jerinj@marvell.com>
Acked-by: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>
Acked-by: Maxime Coquelin <maxime.coquelin@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
Acked-by: David Marchand <david.marchand@redhat.com>
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@ -38,6 +38,13 @@ Deprecation Notices
remove it from the externally visible ABI and allow it to be updated in the remove it from the externally visible ABI and allow it to be updated in the
future. future.
* igb_uio: In the view of reducing the kernel dependency from the main tree,
as a first step, the Technical Board decided to move ``igb_uio``
kernel module to the dpdk-kmods repository in the /linux/igb_uio/ directory
in 20.11.
Minutes of Technical Board Meeting of `2019-11-06
<http://mails.dpdk.org/archives/dev/2019-November/151763.html>`_.
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samples in DPDK that enum/define terminated with a ``.*MAX.*`` value which is samples in DPDK that enum/define terminated with a ``.*MAX.*`` value which is
used by iterators, and arrays holding these values are sized with this used by iterators, and arrays holding these values are sized with this